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umm did you have a look at what they are offering? It's supposed to be as big as Baldur's Gate.. lol
How much do you think it would cost by a Big Studio?

Assuming they even come remotely close to that amount of content, I'm willing to bet all of it is terrible. That title screen is laughable. And they want $300,000?!

The other Kickstarter projects which got widespread attention were from industry heavyweights as people have already described. They're names people know and who expect to deliver. The fact is most of the other Kickstarter projects aren't going to achieve $4 million just on the desire to succeed.

The other Kickstarter projects which got widespread attention were from industry heavyweights as people have already described. They're names people know and who expect to deliver. The fact is most of the other Kickstarter projects aren't going to achieve $4 million just on the desire to succeed.

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Am I the only one who has a strong (and I mean, really strong) feeling the threadstarter is behind this kickstarter ?

No you ain't, it's in fact very likely, he signed up yesterday and I wouldn't be surprised if he is Hungarian xD
Also found this extremely funny.

Originally Posted by rpg_fann

The fan-funded method seems to be working

See Wasteland 2 for instance

It's as if 3 people from Budapest saw that there's this "Kickstarter" thing, decided to get someone that lives in the US to set it up and trust in these gullible people giving their money out in the millions to some page as if there's nothing else behind it :P

It's not even that people have to be "industry giants" for this to work, a lot of funded smaller products prove otherwise, especially:
But they presented actual gameplay, ideas, videos and did months of PR in regards to their projects :P

Also their projects have a significant amount of substance behind them, such that you're almost certain they'll actually see a full release. People seem to have taken this to be a green light for "Look at my incredibly nebulous game idea. I've drawn a really bad animation of the protagonist. Now, I'll need $300,000 to rock your shit like never before!"

I would be more willing to fund a game whose description was this honest.

Cool, let me know where I can send you my animation then. I'll even flesh it out: it's basically like Pac-man except with an arthouse twist. Pac-man is actually representative of a drug addict who must avoid the ghosts of his past, that is his demons that pushed him into addiction, while attempting to acquire more drugs for that high. But the catch is to "win" the player has to let the ghosts catch them, because when they finish the level, Pac-man's LIFE bar goes down. To lose is to win! Features random quotations that splash up on the screen and a glacial walk speed to represent the passage of time or something.

Who wants in? I'll need about $6.50 to make it, plus someone who can do decent 3D models.